Category - Moments

Ketchican holds the title of "America's Rainiest City" by virtue of receiving more than a hundred inches of rainfall per year. According to natives, only one in five days in sunny. Our uncanny weather luck continued, then, during our visit to...

Downtown Juneau -- clustered, conveniently enough, right smack around the piers where the cruise ships dock -- features a delightful collection of technicolor storefronts as gaudy and artificial as anything you'll find in a Disney park. But as we...

10. Blue Coco Mojitos. Rum. Lime. Mint. Ice. What's not to like? 9. Casual conversations with other passengers. We're sharing a dinner table with a very liberal Unitarian Universalist minister and his wife -- a warm, passionate, and dedicated...

Today, we docked in Skagway. (Who names these cities, by the way?) No skags were in sight -- or, if any were there, we couldn't see 'em due to the thick, white fog that reduced visibility to a few feet in front of our faces. For the same reason, the...

As we approached the Hubbard Glacier today, the fog parted, the clouds rolled back, and we found ourselves standing on the bow of the ship, blinking at the bright, clear sky. The Glacier. I've seen pictures of glaciers, and I always imagined them to...

Right this minute, turquoise chunks of the Hubbard Glacier -- some the size of Volkswagons -- are drifting languidly past my stateroom window. We are onboard a mid-shized Holland America vessel called the Volendam. This is our first trip to Alaska...

Tomorrow, Clyde and I depart for a Magical Mystery Trip. Outside of our families, no one knows where we're going! It's a combination "belated fifteenth anniversary / upcoming birthdays" celebration to some destinations we've never visited before...